telephone

电话

电话机; 变话器

telephone

an electrical device for transmitting speech, consisting of a microphone and receiver mounted on a handset.(as modifier)

a worldwide system of communications using telephones. The microphone in one telephone converts sound waves into electrical signals that are transmitted along a telephone wire or by radio to one or more distant sets, the receivers of which reconvert the incoming signal into the original sound.(as modifier)

See telephone box

to call or talk to (a person) by telephone

to transmit (a recorded message, radio or television programme, or other information) by telephone, using special transmitting and receiving equipment

Often shortened to phone